How to Make a Memex

Re:How to Make a Memex by joshvm on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @07:13AM (#22412508)

Roam looks fun, having played around with it briefly. There doesn't seem to be a way of getting it offline though (data export is possible) which is a bit of a killer for a note taking app, at least for me. I don't mind so much about privacy issues, but having to be online especially to review things would be a big problem e.g. during travel.

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Re:How to Make a Memex by qubex on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @07:47AM (#22412704)

Roam very much reminds me of Natrificial’s “Brain”, which I first installed in mid-1999 and used extensively during my early university days.

It seems that the product is still up and running at www.thebrain.com (or at the very least, something very similar to it)

Here is the original announcement of Natrificial’s product way back in January 1998: https://www.wired.com/1998/11/when-your-computer-gets-a-brai...

Basically it was a kind of brainstorming/network software, but it could store documents, notes, and URLs at nodes. This was fairly innovative (for the time) and useful.

Crucially, it offered standalone .brn files for storage and exchange.

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